Combination-tool.



PATENTED AUG. 15, 1905.

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HIRAM O. WILLIAMS, OF JERSEY SHORE, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO RANDALL B. HAYES, OF VILAS, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINATION-TOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug". 15, 1905.

Application filed October 11, 1904. Serial No. 228,055.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HIRAM O. WILLIAMS, a citizen of the United States, residing at J ersey Shore, in the county of Lycoming and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Combination-Tools, of

which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in compound tools.

It has for its object, among other things, to provide for'eflecting by the use of a substantially single tool or implement sundry or various things, as will be hereinafter noted; and said invention consists of the compounding in a novel and operative manner certain parts or devices substantially as presently disclosed, and particularly pointed out by the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred embodiment of my invention, Figure 1 is a side elevation thereof as applied for extracting a railway-rail spike. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same as applied for lifting one side of a railway-track. shows in side View the maul or hammer head member and handle, the wrench member, the maul or hammer head member handle disconnected from the last noted and having connected thereto the track-gage member, and in perspective the tamping-block or head member designed to receive the maul or hammer handle when adapted for use.

In the carrying out of my invention I provide a suitable base 1, having a socket extension 2, and an upstanding arm 8, arranged laterally of said socket extension, the purpose of which will be apparent presently.

A hammer or maul head member 3, preferably of the general outline indicated is adapted to have its lower end or head inserted or stood into the socket extension 2 of the base 1.

Adapted to be pivotally superposed or mounted upon the upper or opposite end of the hammer or maul head member 3 is the wrench member 7 more especially designed as a track-wrench, said members having a rounded or convexed stud 4 and a concaved socket 3, respectively, the latter receiving the former, as shown, thus providing for fulcruming said wrench member upon said hammer or maul head member, for a purpose later disclosed.

A double ratchet-edged or notched bar or pendant 20 is pivotally connected to the lever Fig. 3

or wrench member 7 in rear of its pivot or fulcrum 4, as at 17, and with the notches or ratchet-surfaces 21 of said bar or pendant are caused to automatically engage two links or pawls 10, connected or pivoted, as at 11, to a rocking lever 9, fulcrumed or pivoted in the upper end of the arm8, as at 12. Said links or pawls have their points of connection with said rocking lever upon opposite sides of the pivot or fulcrum of the latter, while said links 10 are suitably connected by 2. preferably coiled or helical spring 22 to automatically hold them in engagement with the notched bar or pendant 20. The rocking lever 9 is equipped with an actuating-handle 6, suitably adapted at one end to receive or be slipped upon one end of said lever.

A claw-bar member 5, having one end provided with a claw or hook 5 and its other end with a double claw 5 is adapted to'have its hooked end engaged with or caught over the edge of the lever or wrench member 7, as shown by Fig. 1, for the application or engagement of its double-claw terminal 5 with the head, more especially of a rail-securing spike, as also disclosed by the same figure.

It will be noted that with the parts in the position as indicated in the last-referred-to figure by suitably actuating the handle or lever 6 the force thus applied to the claw-bar member 5 will, it is obvious, have the effect to extract or withdraw the spike 19 with which it is engaged from the rail-tie 18. If, however, it may be required to lift one side of a railway-track 14: at one end, the claw-bar member 5 is removed or disengaged from the wrench member or lever 7 and a link 13 slipped upon the latter past the nut-receiving end thereof and said claw-bar member applied to the under side of said rail at the requisite point, 'as indicated by Fig. 2, said link then being engaged laterally with the double claw terminal 5 of said claw-bar member. Accordingly by suitably actuating the handle or lever 6 as previously the requisite force will be exerted, it is apparent,'to raise or elevate said rail-section.

In using the tool or implement as a maul or hammer the hammer or maul head member 3 is disassociated from the aforesaid-noted members and has a handle 16 suitably connected thereto, as disclosed by one of the views in Fig. 3, as will be readily identified.

The application of the implement, particularly as a track-wrench, is also readily 'observable from Fig. 3.

'In using the tool as a track-gage the handle l6, detached or disconnected from the hammer or maul head member 3, has suitably applied thereto a gage-bar member 25 for keeping the track at standard gage, also disclosed by the figure last noted. For tamping purposes I provide a tamping head or block member 23, as also seen in the latter figure, and suitably connected thereto the handle 16, disconnecting it from the hammer or maul head member 3.

Latitude is allowed as to details herein, as they may be changed as circumstances suggest without departing from the spirit of my invention.

I claim-- 1. A tool of the character described, employing a wrench member efliective as a lever, a maul-head member forming a fulcrum for said lever, a claw-bar member, a link connection between said wrench member and claw bar member, a double ratchet-bar pivoted to said wrench member, a rocking lever having a handle for its actuation, and links connected to said rocking lever and engaged with said ratchet-bar.

2. A tool of the character described, employing a wrench member adapted to act as a lever, a claw-bar member, means effecting connection between said Wrench member and said claw-bar member, a double ratchet or notched bar depending from said lever or wrench member, links or pawls automatically engaging said notched bar, a rocking lever having said links in engagement therewith, and means for actuating said rocking lever.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HIRAM (J. WILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

WM. R. PEOPLES, W. J. MoNAMEE. 

